Re:What do Climate Change, Data Centres and Cloud have to do...
by pauldjohnston on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:35AM
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We have a big problem in tech to do with how we use the Cloud and Climate Change. Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions from just data centres are equivalent (and probably higher) than the aviation industry.
So we'd like everyone to move to sustainable servers (cloud providers are self reported):
* Google is 100% offset
* Azure is 100% offset
* AWS has 4 carbon neutral regions - Oregon, Montreal, Ireland, Frankfurt
* Move to a Data Centre using/offsetting with renewable energy
* Request Data Centres to move to renewable energy
https://www.change.org/p/sustainable-servers-by-2024
We can do something about this. Anne Currie and I have written a whitepaper on this.
https://bit.ly/2024
So we'd like everyone to move to sustainable servers (cloud providers are self reported):
* Google is 100% offset * Azure is 100% offset * AWS has 4 carbon neutral regions - Oregon, Montreal, Ireland, Frankfurt * Move to a Data Centre using/offsetting with renewable energy * Request Data Centres to move to renewable energy
These are simple things we can do now.